George T. Myrick, personnel director

George T. Myrick, a retired hospital director of personnel and model railroad fan, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. He was 85.

The son of a Bendix Radio Corp. worker and a homemaker, George Thompson Myrick was born in Philadelphia and moved to Homeland when his father went to work at Bendix.

He attended St. Paul's School for two years and graduated in 1945 from Friends School. After leaving Friends, he enlisted in the Navy and served until 1946.

Mr. Myrick enrolled at Swarthmore College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1950. While he was at Swarthmore, he met and fell in love with his college sweetheart, the former Barbara Manthei, whom he married in 1952.

Mr. Myrick moved to Baltimore in 1951 when he went to work as personnel director at the Frieze Instrument Division of the Bendix Corp. on Taylor Avenue in Hillendale.